SemesterSpring Semester, 2018
DepartmentGeneral Education Courses in Humanities General Education Courses in Social Sciences
Course NameWestern Images of China and Taiwan
InstructorEATON WILLIAM JOSEPH
Credit2.0
Course TypeSelectively
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

Course outline: subject to change. It is important that you read the assigned course reading before class.



 

























































































































Week



Theme of the Week



Course Content



Course readings



February 28



228 Memorial Day (Holiday)



 



 



March 7



Introduction to the Course; Early Images of China (before 1600)



PPT, class discussion



Colin Mackerras, Western Images of China [abbreviated Western Images hereafter], chapters 1 & 2



March 14



Jesuits, Philosophes, and Chinoiserie



PPT, class discussion



François Quesnay, “Le despotisme de la Chine” (1767) & Oliver Goldsmith, “Citizen of the World” (1760-61) excerpts



March 21



Changing Fashions:



Nineteenth-Century Images of China



PPT, class discussion



Macartney's “Observations on China” (1794) & Rev. Arthur Smith, “Chinese Characteristics” (1894) excerpts



March 28



Early Images of Taiwan



PPT, class discussion



George Psalmanazar, “An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa” (1704) excerpts; contemporary maps of Formosa



April 4



Holiday



 



 



April 11



Early Republican China



PPT, class discussion



Readings to be announced



April 18



China and Civil War



PPT, class discussion



Edgar Snow, “Red Star over China” (1937) excerpts



April 25



Midterm Examination



 



 



May 2



China and World War II



PPT, class discussion



Time and Life magazine excerpts



May 9



Images of China, Post-1949



PPT, class discussion



Western Images, chapter 6



May 16



Images and the Cultural Revolution, The “Intellectuals” and China



PPT, class discussion



Jann Myrdal, “China: The Revolution Continued,” (1970), Lorenz Stucki,



“Behind the Great Wall: An Appraisal of Mao's China,” (1965), Felix Greene, “Awakened China: The Country Americans Don't Know,” (1961), Shirley MacLaine, “You Can Get There from Here,” (1975)



May 23



Cold War Images of Taiwan



PPT, class discussion



Time and Life magazine excerpts



May 30



The PRC’s Diplomatic Opening: 1970s



PPT, class discussion



Magazine and newspaper excerpts; visual images



June 6



The PRC’s Economic Opening: 1978 -



PPT, class discussion



Time and Life magazine excerpts



June 13



Taiwan’s Modernization, Derecognition, and Democratization



PPT, class discussion



Magazine and newspaper excerpts (including National Geographic); visual images



June 20



Conflicting Images: Tiananmen, World Trade Organization, Beijing 2008; Images of Contemporary China



PPT, class discussion



Magazine and newspaper excerpts; visual images



June 27



Final Examination



 



 




 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

does not apply


Requirement/Grading

Assignments and grading criteria:



Participation and attendance: 10% (‘perfect’ attendance policy – 0 or 1 absence, regardless of cause)



Mid-term: 30%



Essay and/or class projects: 30%



Final: 30%


Textbook & Reference

See syllabus


Urls about Course
Attachment

Western_Images_of_China_syllabus_Spring_2018.pdf